BEIJING, June 12 (Xinhua) -- East China's Anhui Province has recently released a plan for development of the new-generation artificial intelligence industry, eying 150 billion yuan of the AI industry output in 2030.
Under the plan, Anhui plans to build China (Hefei) intelligent voice and artificial intelligence industry base (China's Sound Valley) into the core area for the development of the AI industry in the province.
It will rely on the strategic emerging industry bases in the Province's Wuhu and Ma'anshan cities to build smart industrial robots and special robots industrial clusters. It also will give play to advantages of the cities such as Suzhou, Huainan and Bengbu in cloud computing and big data to promote AI application on a much larger scale.
Meanwhile, Anhui also strives to bring the AI industry scale to be 15 billion yuan in 2020 and 150 billion yuan in 2030, said the plan. (Edited by Hu Pingchao, hupingchao@xinhua.org)